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...industrial use as a replacement for the cork linings of refrigerators. Today the industrial use of glass is making strides comparable to those of aluminum in the past decade, but it is challenged by plastics. The venerable U.S. glass industry, according to George Pope MacNichol Jr., vice president of Libbey-Owens-Ford, is at a historic crossroads: it can either partially abdicate before the plastics industry, try to develop glass products superior to plastics, or jump into the manufacture of plastics itself. Libbey-Owens-Ford has jumped into plastics, but predicts that it will be a long time, if ever...
...responsible WPB official had seen the Libbey report; but it had "leaked" to the Post. There was doubtless some truth in it. No one has yet made a satisfactory explanation why the U.S., with half the world's steel capacity, is bogged in a steel "shortage." But the cure was not in intramural bickering in WPB's big undisciplined mob. A more likely solution had already been laid on Nelson's desk by big (6 ft. 3) hustling Reese Taylor, steel division chief: he wants a quota plan patterned after Bernard Baruch's World...
Taylor got quick action from the boss. Nelson at once disowned the report, ordered Libbey fired for talking out of turn, gathered the whole steel branch around him to promise no more monkeyshines. Never before had Nelson moved so quickly...
...C.I.O. members of WPB's labor advisory committee promptly staged a counter-revolt, charging that their friend Libbey was fired "for telling the truth," that "vested interests" had blocked the steel program, that the interests were "given aid and comfort by certain dollar-a-year men." But everyone else, including Frederick Libbey, seemed pleased. Said he, as he started to look...
...decided-but by week's end, except for firing Libbey and bucking the Army on field agents' priorities, he had not yet acted. Washington watched closely, to see whether Nelson's new toughness was in the biceps or larynx. WPB's hour was late. The problems were multifold and urgent...